Door-hanger.



J. M. JANES.

DOOR HANGER.

' APPLICATION FILED 11:13.17, 1914.

Patented June 23, 1914.

TE STATES PATENT orator JQHN JANES, POUGI-IKEEPSIE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO LANE BROTHERS COMPANY, OF POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

DOOR-HANGER.

' be marketed with the brackets detached from the track, but which will enable the brackets to be readily applied thereto, and easily adjusted as to space to support the track to the best advantage according to conditions, and in which, while adequate support for the track will be provided, and the rail supported a given distance from the building, yet the rail, not being rigidlyheld by the brackets, may yield with relation to the brackets to accommodate itself to conditions which may be encountered in use.

With these and other objects in view, the invention includes the novel features of construction and arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and particularly defined by the appended claims.

An embodiment of the invention is illus trated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 represents the track in transverse section supported by the bracket, and with the door hanger in place thereon; Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the supporting bracket, and Fig. 3 is a sectional top plan view showing the spring dowel, joining two sections of rail, with the supporting brackets in proper relation thereto, and also the stop bracket at the end of the rail; Fig. 4 is a detail view of the splice.

Referring by reference characters to this drawing, the numeral 1 designates the track which comprises an approximately cylindrical tube having a slot in one side extending the entire length of the tube. This track is provided at the ends by the stop brackets 52 which carry cylindrical projections 2 designed to enter the ends of the track, and is supported by the brackets 3, any number of which may be used, according to the length of the track section, the weight to be carried thereby,- and other. conditions.

7 Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 17, 1914.

Patented June 23, 1914. Serial No. 825,299.

Each of these brackets is formed of a single piece of metal having a portion bifurcated to provide two members 3-, which are bent in opposite directions to bring their extremities into the same plane, such extremities being provided with holes for the reception of screws by which the bracket may be secured to the wall, door frame, or other support. The opposite portion of the bracket iscurved upwardly into a' plane substantially parallel with the members 3 as indicated at 3", and extends upwardly from the intermediate portion of the bracket a distance approximately one-half of the interior diameter of the tube, so that when the intermediate portion of the bracket is in position in the slot in the rail, said rail will be sustained approximately in the position shown in Fig. 1- with the upper edge of the up wardly turned portion 3 bearing against the interior of the rail at the top thereof. The bracket, as will be observed, has a wide bearing surface where it joins the rail, but is relatively thin vertically, and its vertical thickness is such with relation to the slot in the rail as to cause it to fit snugly therein. As the brackets are not rigidly connected to the rail, they may be shipped from the factory entirely disconnected therefrom, and prior to erection they may be approximately spaced in a length of rail, being held in their tentative positions by frictional contact. In erecting or applying the rail to the building, if it be found that additional brackets are required these may be readily inserted anywhere along the length of rail and shifted to the exact point desired for attachment. If, after part of the brackets are secured in place, it be discovered that one bracket comes opposite a joint or knot hole, it may be easily moved longitudinally of the track to a point where it may be secured.

The yielding connection afforded by the engagement of the thin portion of the bracket with the edges of the slot and the entirely unconnected bearing of the upturned end on the interior of the rail, enables the rail to yield on its support under forced side pressure. For example, if the wall or other surface to which the brackets are secured be not perfectly true this capacity for the parts to yield in relation to each other enables the rail to maintain its shown at 4 having a grooved wheel 5 adapted to run on the track, and having below the track a guard 6 adapted to prevent derail-- ment, but it will be understoodthat this hanger is shown as exemplary of any desired form of hanger, and forms no part, of the presentinvention.

The tracks are usually shipped out in sections, a number of which are used to form a track of the requisite length. To secure accurate alinement of the abutting ends of thetrack sections I provide the splice members or dowels 7 which are of slotted tubular form, similar in cross section to the rails, but having an exterior diameter corresponding to the interior of the rail sections, but fitting therein with a snug fit.

In splicing the joints I secure the last bracket of one section about two inches back from the end (see the right hand bracket of Fig. 3) and drive a splicing dowel into the end-of the track section until its end contacts with the edge of the bracket.

over the splicing dowel until its end contacts with the preceding rail section and a second bracket is preferably placed against the opposite end of the dowel. It will be seen that the splicing dowels maintain perfoot. alinement ofthe rail sections, although The end of the next rail section is then forced l I bracketsas hereinbefore referred to.

I claim asiny invention: 1

1. The combination with a substantially cylindrical track or rail.havingalongitudinal slot, of a bracket provided with means for securing'it to a wall, and extending latbent upwardly at substantially right angles and bearing against the interiorsurface of the rail at the top thereof.

2. In combination with a substantially tubular track or rail having a slot along one side, a supporting bracket-comprising an integral member having upwardly and downwardly bent parts. forming legs for attachment to a wall, a body portion snugly fitting said slot, and an upwardly extending end lying atapproximately right angles to said body portion and bearing "against the interior surl'ace of the rail at the top there of, substantially as described. 7 3. A track comprising a plurality of abuthaving longitudinal dowels of tubular form'inserted in the adjoining ends of the track sections and having longitudinal slots.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature in presence of: two witnesses.

' JOHN M. JANES.

Witnesses:

G. J. Bnownn, EDWARD V. GUNN.

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the whole track may shift in or out on the orally through said slot, andhaving its ends 7 i ting sections of substantially tubular form slots and splicing 

